Clock Collection (#34)

MARGATE - 1918
Marine Parade Margate Kent

Mother / Child / Letter 1912
Mother tells her little girl that an important letter has arrived

England / Bury St. Edmunds
A glimpse of the historic town of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, with only a few parked cars on the road

Girls at Fireside 1883
Two girls watch the clock in anticipation of someones arrival

Boy Studying Clock 1879
A boy spends his spare time fruitfully by studying the workings of a clock

Bradlaugh Incarcerated
CHARLES BRADLAUGH imprisoned, quite comfortably, in the Clock Tower prison in the Houses of Parliament, London. Date: 1833 - 1891

England / Guildford
Guildford, Surrey, has one of the finest High Streets in the South of England. Half-way down, is the well-known 16th century clock, outside a very quaint Guild Hall building

England / Abinger Hammer
The blacksmith whose motto is " By me you know how fast you go" strikes the clock and indicates the historical importance of ironworking to Abinger Hammer in Surrey

Festival Gardens 1951
Visitors relax on deckchairs while a gardener tends to the flower beds at the Festival Gardens, Battersea. Note the Guinness Clock (behind) and Crescent Restaurant (left)

Llangefri Clock Tower
This Neo-Gothic clock tower in Llangefni, Anglesey, Wales, is a War Memorial to George Pritchard Rayner, who died at Bloemfontein Hospital (Boer War) in 1900. Unveiled 1902

Herne Bay / Kent 1950S
The promenade

Courtyard / Ightham Mote
The cobbled courtyard of the moated manor house of Ightham Mote, Kent dating from the 1340s. The chapel & half- timbered tudor gables are depicted

Busy Fleet Street 1930S
Two labourers lift a box crate onto the back of an open carriage parked on busy Fleet Street

Old Man Reads Bible
SUNDAY MORNING An elderly man sits in his cottage, reading The Bible

French Schoolboys C1880
Three French schoolboys in the classroom: one of them is moving the clock forward in the hope that they will be able to go home early

Scotland / Clackmannan
The main street of Clackmannan, the county town of Clackmannanshire, Scotland, with its fine clock tower

Price with Clock
Harry Price with a clock : he was an enthusiastic gadgeteer

Clock / Clepsydra, C magne
The Clepsydra of Charlemagne (or water stealer ). A graduated vase was filled with liqued which stole through an aperture. The receding height marked the passage in hours

BIG BEN IN SPLINTS
Big Ben in splints ! Scaffolding covers the famous London clock tower (Big Ben being the name of the huge bell within it), Westminster, London, during renovation work

Cheapside 1930S
View of Cheapside, City of London, with the distinctive Mappin & Webb corner building, with its clock, on the left of the photograph

Newent Church
The main entrance of Newark Church, Gloucestershire, England

Family / Getting Married
Advice to young ladies about to be married - try sitting up for the milk a few nights, it is good practice!

Soviet Soldier & Clock
Russia : a Soviet soldier retrieves a clock from the rubble of a village devastated by the German attack

Suburban Living Room
Typical suburban lounge with ornaments on shelves, family photographs on the window ledge and television in the corner

Shell Mex Building
View across the Thames from the outside the Royal Festival Hall, showing the South Bank Promenade in the foreground and Shell Mex House (with clock) on the other side. Date: 1951

A fantasy clockmaker, dressed up in a costume made of clocks and clockmaking equipment

CLOCK
Swedish Wall Clocks

Chickens Come Clock, words and music
Chickens come clock, come clock, come clock... The kites are away and the crows are asleep, And its time for my chickens to get something to eat

Nuremberg Defendents
The defendants at the Nuremberg Trial listen to the proceedings as they are tried for crimes against peace, humanity and defenceless minorities

Syntax in Coffee Brawl
Dr Syntax present at a coffee house quarrel at Bath

Fashion Plate / 1848 / Men
Evening dress, top coat & gibus hat; Wellesley style wrapper with fur trim & brandenburgs; loose fitting jacket & strapped pantaloons with vertical stripes

Amsterdam / Exchange 17C
Amsterdam: aerial view of the Exchange (Borse), showing people inside the building Date: 17th century

Meyerbeer / Robert Liebig5
Act 4 scene 2 : Robert is torn between Bertram (the Devil) and Alice : she saves him from signing a compact, the clock strikes twelve, Bertram vanishes back to Hell

GRANDFATHERs CLOCK 1860
A grandfather sits next to a grandfather clock in a cosy room

Grandfather Clock C1883
A little girl watches the pendulum of an ornate grandfather clock

Milan Electric Clock
An electric clock at Milan railway station

Austria / Graz Glockenspie
Graz: the Glockenspielplatz (clock square)

Pig / Learned Toby 18C
Toby, the learned pig at Bartholomew Fair

Waiting for Sale Start
Anxious shoppers outside Selfridges on Londons Oxford Street wait for the store to open and the sale to begin

16th Century German Town
Typical buildings of a late medieval German town

Hiccory Diccory Dock
Hiccory, diccory, dock, The mouse ran up the clock; The clock struck one, And the mouse came down, Hiccory, diccory, dock

WAGNER / LIEBIG / 1 / 1821
RICHARD WAGNER German composer as a boy, in 1821: his parents listen as he plays his first compositions Date: 1813 - 1883

C17 Striking Clock
A STRIKING CLOCK of the early 17th century : as the hours sound, the mans head moves and the animal at his feet jumps

C17 Table Clock
A TABLE CLOCK, of traditional octagonal design, combining practicality with ornament

C17 Clepsydra
A sophisticated form of CLEPSYDRA, in which the emptying of liquid causes a drum to rotate, which in turn causing the handles to move round the clock face

Husband Hogs Fire C1875
Realisation: the husband selfishly hogs the fire, while his wife stands by the window wondering where she went wrong

Mother & Daughters 1860S
Woman: dress with bishop sleeves, pleated ribbon trim, white cuffs, lace collar. Girls: short frocks cut low off the shoulders, broderie Anglaise trimmed drawers

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